From memory some of the Albermarle parts were recovered from the quarry at Aspatria by the RAF museum, these parts consisted of the remains of 2 steel tube forward fuselage sections, some wing & other parts, they were given to the now defunct Pennine aircraft…. Cheer’s.
Mark.

Yes the parts went to the now defunct Pennine Aviation Museum – they had been in store at Hendon and I believe due to the loss of storage space were in danger of being scrapped. The parts consisted of two lorry trailer loads of tubular steel remains- mainly wingspar and centre section – probably representing the remains of two aircraft. However the Albermarles had been burnt prior to being bulldozed into the quarry, so they were not in particularly good condition and the remains ended up being scrapped after several years storage in the open – which I have detailed previously.

Only the cockpit section frames were made up from stainless steel tubing and so were easily identified and two cockpit frames were partially reassembled – originally these frames would have been encased in a aluminium shell – none of which survived the burning. I believe Mr Stansfield still has them in storage, though now again disassembled and I believe he has been back to the quarry and recovered further smaller parts.

As well as aircraft parts (from burnt aircraft) there was a lot of other material dumped in the quarry, including vehicle remains, rubble and general refuse, making getting at the “gems” difficult as they were apparently in the bottom layer and removing the overburden of rubbish and rubble made recovery prohibitively expensive and extracting anything without doing this would be very dangerous / difficult. More recently I have also heard that industrial waste was also dumped in the quarry and the cost implications of uncovering and then having to dispose of this material properly under today’s rules and regulations also means that “official” recovery of further substantial remains is unlikely?